I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

— Terry Pratchett

.. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

— Petronius (210 BC)

The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

— Proust

So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

— Proust "Within the Budding Grove"

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

— George Bernard Shaw

A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

— Anon

Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

— Anon

The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

— Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"

All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"

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The following are just some of James' descendants.
Curious to see if the Rev James is related?
Is there a direct male line RICHARDSON descendant able to join the RICHARDSON DNA project to see if we get a match with the other RICHARDSON trees with a Morebattle connection?
Failing a direct male line, we'll happily settle for anyone testing their autosomal dna, eg FamilyFinder from FamilyTree DNA!